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June 2026 new releases from Black Inc.
From Black Inc. in June 2026: Anna Goldsworthy’s brilliant new Quarterly Essay The God We Made; the twentieth-anniversary edition of Alice Pung’s beloved Unpolished Gem, alongside a beautiful new B-format edition of Alice's 2022 novel One Hundred Days; and Maria Golia’s The Shortest History of Egypt, a fresh perspective on one of humanity’s oldest and most enduring civilisations.
Read an extract from The Shortest History of Egypt by Maria Golia
Egypt is historically the most photographed, studied, fictionalised and commoditised place on Earth...
Read an extract from Title Fight by Paul Cleary
A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara
Out Now: The Shortest History of Scotland by Murray Pittock
From clan castles and conflict to Hadrian's Wall and Brexit
Out Now: Enigmatic Echidna by Danielle Clode
'The Enigmatic Echidna asks us to look past the assumption that its subject is no more than an evolutionary curio to reveal an animal rich in cultural and scientific significance. Written with rigour and expansive curiosity, it contains multitudes.' —James Bradley
May 2026 new releases from Black Inc.
Four standout new books this May – from urgent reportage to gripping history and extraordinary nature writing: Sirens by Martin McKenzie-Murray, a moving glimpse into the lives of three first responders, the triumphant The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes, The Enigmatic Echidna from biologist and natural history author Danielle Clode and The Shortest History of Scotland by Murray Pittock – a dazzling account of Scotland’s defining past.
April 2026 new releases from Black Inc.
Out this month: A. D. Hope by Susan Lever, Ruin of Magic by Kate Holden and High Time by Desmond Manderson
A Q&A with Martin McKenzie-Murray, author of Sirens
Martin McKenzie-Murray – The Saturday Paper’s associate editor, two-time Walkley finalist and winner of the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Award – chats with us about his forthcoming book, Sirens: Inside the Shadow World of First Responders, which publishes on 28 April.
A Q&A with Kate Holden, author of The Ruin of Magic
Kate Holden, author of two highly praised memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic, and the Walkley Award–winning The Winter Road, chats with us about writing, nostalgia and malaise in our modern times – subjects she explores at length in her collection of literary essays, The Ruin of Magic, which publishes 7 April.
Out Now: Blind Spot by Michael Wesley
Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world.
